Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-02-03
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Inducements to INN grams 10 Settle III st. Nays County

McSSrs Editors Il believe | can truth
fully say, considering all things, there is no
part of the Country that offers today greater
advantages for the investment of capital 10
limited extent, than in Southern Mary
land farms. Not the orange groves of Flor
ida; nor the grazing prairies of Texas; the
cotton and sugar fields of the South: nor
the great wheat regions of the West, can
offer The farmer of small means such in
ducements for safe and good investment
rs in farms in this section. And if YOU will
allow me small space in your paper, |
think can prove il To the satisfaction Of
every prudent man. Thirty years Ego
New Jersey and Delaware We're the only
States that raised peaches, to any extent,
for market. About thft time Reybpld, the
steamboat man and great wool-grower, Of
| Delaware. bought a large farm in Cecil
/ county, for which he paid sixty thousand
dollars, planted it out in peach trees, and
three years after that. the first year of its
bearing, he sold enough peaches from it, it
is said, TO pay for it. And thus was estab
liShed the peach business on the Eastern
I Shore OF Maryland. And those who know
| what was the condition of Cecil, Kent,
Caroline and Queen AnDe's county-the
! peach area-theR, and what is their condi-
! ton HOic, will readily see what the peach
! has done for those counties, and think We
NAV justly conclude, that what il has done
| for that section, il would do for Southern
! Maryland, where both the soil and climate
are 50 well adapted a. the culture of the
peach. read in the Baltimore Saa, not
very long ago, an article stating that from
too long a continued production Of the same
crop, the particular constituents in the soil
required for the nutriment and growth of
the peach tree bad become exhausted in
the State Of New Jersey and well nigh 50 in
the State Of Delaware; 81 that il was no
longer a paying crop in those States, and
that the Eastern Shore Of Mar land was
showing signs of the same thing, at the same
time directing growers 20 Southern Mary
land, as the field for the supply If peaches
10 the Country, at least until those sections
could have time to recuperate. This is in
accordance with the experience Of every
farmer in all crops. But in the case Of
peach trees there is more 10 be said, they
gei.erate their own destroyer. in the shape
If the borer and other worms So much
for Southern Maryland. And now. Messrs.
Editors, as am better acquainted with the
soil and resources nf II. Mary's county,
and more Immediately interested in her
welfare, l shall devote my attention ex-
clusively to her, leaving 10 Others who c
better acquainted and more competent, the
task of speaking for the other counties of
that section. We have already flourish
ing peach nursery established year or
two ago by an enterprising farmer from
Queen Anne's county, who purchased
farm on the north bank Of the St Mary's
river. And DIR. Jno. NJ. Bronze, on his
large and valuable estate on the south bank
of the same river, planted on, small
orchard Of = couple Of thousand trees two
years ago last Fall, which are the most